When everything feels like a priority, nothing actually is

You know that feeling when you’ve got seventeen browser tabs open, three half-finished projects on your desk, and a mental list that keeps growing faster than you can cross things off? 

Yeah, that one.

Here’s the thing about too many options - they don’t actually give us freedom. 

They paralyze us. 

We end up scrolling through possibilities instead of doing anything real.

Right now I’m re-learning this the hard way, and the answer isn’t better organization or a fancier to-do app. 

It’s subtraction.

Start by asking yourself what you can just… not do. 

Not later. 

Not someday. 

Just never. 

Because honestly? 

Most of those options aren’t really opportunities; they’re distractions wearing a convincing disguise.

Pick three things. 

That’s it. 

Three things that actually move the needle on what matters to you right now. 

Everything else gets a polite “not today.”

And look, this feels terrifying at first. 

What if you choose wrong? 

What if you miss out? 

Science shows we can only make so many decisions every day then we start suffering from “decision fatigue".

Yes, that’s an actual professional term. 

So less is actually more, at least when it comes to decision making.  

Because you finally make progress. You get momentum. 

You stop living in decision fatigue and start living in actual forward motion.

The goal isn’t to make perfect choices. 

It’s to make any choice and commit to it long enough to see where it goes.

Close the tabs. 

Pick your three. 

Start there.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​